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Summary
Six years after the Netherbrain fell, Astarion Ancunín rules Baldur's Gate from the Szarr palace, and Christessa Vhalcoris rules the parts of it he cannot yet be trusted with. She is his consort by choice: a Bhaalspawn who refused her god and kept on refusing him, who knows precisely what the Ascendant is and stays anyway. What they have built works because neither of them lies about it.
Then a cult that never quite finished dying remembers her name. An old ritual finds her blood and calls it owed. And something begins growing beneath her ribs that no one in the palace planned for, least of all a man who has spent two centuries learning that everything he loves is something he keeps.
A dark romance about possession and devotion, and the distance a man has to travel between them. And a question she has started asking herself: what her redeemed instincts are actually for.
Complete, 25 chapters. Written using generative AI. Please see the notes before reading.
Series
- Part 2 of The Ascendant Years